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hello everyone. good morning. welcome to cnn this morning it is sunday, august 18. i'm amara walker. i'm victor blackwell. >> thank you for joining us. >> here's what's happening. today. vice president harris and her running mate, tim walz, will be setting off on their bus tour pennsylvania ahead of this week's democratic national convention plus, we're getting new details about the moment harris and biden will appear on stage together, the dnc for this symbolic passing of the torch. >> i'll say ukrainian forces are pushing deeper so. russia powered in part by u.s. provided weapons. cnn travels with ukrainian soldiers as they take their fight to put me on his own territory, beaches up and down the east coast are closed today as hurricane ernesto brings the threat of dangerous rip currents. meteorologist allison chinchar is here with a look at the areas facing in the greatest risk today i still get the rush though every time you see it, you're like, oh, played by noise. >> i finally get another one

out of here because that's the mission essentially, and get them audie and if you have the. courage and maybe some antivenom handy, it could be worth $10,000. we'll take you to the florida python challenge later this hour we begin in chicago, where democrats are gearing up for the start of their national convention. >> here's a look at the convention hall where the president biden and vice president harris will appear together in this symbolic handoff that's happening tomorrow night. >> then each night a who's who of democratic party leaders will speak? on the themes for the people, a bold vision for america's future, and to fight for our freedoms. the week we'll end with vice president kamala harris formally accepting the democratic nomination on thursday, harris and governor tim walz are keeping a busy schedule. this weekend. yesterday walz celebrated a homecoming at a campaign rally and nebraska that's a state where he grew up and where he met his wife

and he leaned into his heritage while attacking trump in nebraska. >> he got a slogan here. nebraska, it's not for everyone well, ensuring for donald trump, i'll tell you that every opportunity he has he weakens our country to strengthen his own hands. he mocks our laws. he sows chaos and division amongst us and that's not even counting the time he was president walz will join harris on the road for a bus tour through western pennsylvania today and all that campaign is being backed up up by some major ad dollars. >> the harris campaign says it has reserved 370 million in television and digital advertising through november's election. and since july 21, the day president biden dropped out of the race, the trump and harris campaigns have spent more than 241 million in seven

key battleground states. now source tells cnn that former president donald trump is planning to hold a series of events to counter the democratic national convention. >> trump supporter has got a preview of these so-called messaging events last night, as cnn's danny freeman reports, trump's message was more personal then political no doubt this was a packed and rock his rally for former president donald trump here in wilkes-barre, pennsylvania. >> but the big question leading into this rally was, could the candidate stay on message goodie, stick to the topics of the economy, immigration and crime because allez and adviser of the former president said that that was the primary way that he could start to blunt some of the momentum that vice president kamla harris has had in her campaign over the past few weeks now, there were some lines that were specifically on topics i'll get that in a moment, but make no mistake. this was generally a normal trump rally which included a lot of wandering and meandering lines the crowd loved a lot of

that, but it was far from on message. there were certain points where the former president made fun. he paris is lab. he also called her a lunatic and then at one point, he actually referenced a time magazine cover and took a moment to say that he's a better looking than harris he also spoke at length about debates and also spoke a lot about president joe biden, who is no longer his opponent in this race. now there were a few moments where the former president was able to stay on message. he brought up a man who had family in venezuela who talked about his sphere of communism he also played an attack ad for the crowd that really painted vice president harris has a radical liberal. and there was one moment where he actually addressed some of the new economic policy. is that vice president harris released back on friday. take a listen to how he addressed these new policies. >> yesterday kobila laid out or so-called economic plan. she say she's going to lower the cost of food and housing starting on day one. but day one for kamala was

three-and-a-half years ago so why didn't she do it then so this is day 13, 000 five were at 1,305. so why isn't she doing it now? why doesn't she? >> get away from her nice little place with her wonderful husband go to washington to do it now and it could do it right now now, i should say on friday, vice president harris said that her economic plan is supposed to cut taxes for middle-class and also reduce costs at the grocery store but as you heard right there, a former president trump said, well, if that's the case, how come vice president harris has not been doing that as part of the biden-harris administration those were parts where he was on message, but that was a relatively small portion of this about hour-and-a-half rally in pencil so danya on saturday afternoon victor amara. >> thank you. danny president biden will begin the democratic

national convention on monday with what is being described as a forceful appeal for kamala harris's candidacy, cnn's camila dechalus joining us now with more camila. >> the opening night is very different. and then what many people imagined just several weeks ago, tell us about this symbolic passing of the torch moment tomorrow. >> that's right, amara, this is not the speech that president biden expected to give even two months ago, but right now, he is in camp david, surrounded by his aides over the weekend to really prepare and craft to what he exactly wants to say in his high profile speech. and we are told by white house aides that he has two goals when he's delivering his speech one is to really make the case of why vice president kamala harris is the best candidate to replace him on the ticket and the second is to make the argument of why former president donald trump he used to be replaced in defeated in this upcoming election cycle. now, white house aides also tell us that

why, how biden is going to really achieve this goal is really by stressing kamala harris is record and what she how she is as a person. and the second thing is to really element and really highlight like how trump he firmly believes, how he poses a grave threat to democracy. so this is something that aides say that this is what he's going to set out to do. and one of his really last high-profile events as he remains in office, but he really wants to make this strong case to the american people at this democratic national convention. >> camila dechalus for us this morning. thank you so much. now what the democratic party will be busy in chicago, former president trump will be taken his counter-arguments on the road. he's planning what his campaign is calling, messaging events in battleground states there'll be in smaller venues that focus on one or two policy issues important to the campaign that's if he stays on message. it's kicking things off in pennsylvania on monday for what they say will be an economic message will see on

tuesday, he'll head to how michigan to discuss crime. justice is running mate ohio senator j.d. vance we'll hold his own rally in kenosha, wisconsin that day. then wednesday, former president trump will head to north carolina to talk about national security. and will wrap up his tour on friday with a rally in arizona all right. >> let's bring in politico white house reporter daniel lippman to talk more about all things politics. daniel, good to see you this morning. so let's talk about this week as the democratic national convention will be kicking off torrow the organizers had to really rework the programming after president biden withdrew from the race. what will we see this week? >> what you're going to see is with biden speech, he is going to try to make the case that harris has been has done a good job as vice president he's not going to talk about any of the resentments he has against other leaders in the party like

obama and chuck schumer nancy pelosi, because he felt like they pushed them out of the race. but you just see this energy in the democratic party now that they have a person who can deliver a message we may see in biden's speech or reason why democrats have gone to harris in terms of not being as state eddie of a speaker anymore, given that his age has taken hold a little bit i can only imagine it's going to be a really difficult and their sweet moment for president biden. and really a poignant and symbolic one really for the country as we see, biden and harris on that stage together for the official passing of the torch moment at the dnc how important will this be? how significant will it be for the party and really for the country? >> i think it's more of a symbolic moment than anything harris has done her own work in the last month to consolidate

the base and to get them excited. and so this is kind of a capstone to biden's career on the national stage. she wanted to be president, probably since he started in politics and his his late 20s, he had to he wasn't even eligible to be a senator when he was first elected, he had to wait until until january and so he also did not want his legacy to be one where democrats wanted him out of the race. and that they would have blamed him if he had stayed in and then donald trump would have been re-elected in november. and so his legacy would have been in tatters among democrats and so this is a moment that they want to get proper due respect to biden and what he's done and harris can't distance herself too much from her own part in the administration but she has to lay out her own agenda and the economic agenda was criticized by economists, by who say, hey,

this price gouging proposal is not really, does not, is not going to work. and has not a beneficial for the economy but most people don't vote based on the minutiae of economics yeah, exactly. >> and of course, the question is if ever price gouging plan will actually backfire so you have harris going into the dnc with huge momentum, as you say in fact, a new poll out from the new york times and siena college shows that she's really significantly improved the channel chances for the democrats in november on the crucial swing states there, as you see, an arizona and north carolina, nevada, and georgia, she's really pushed ahead of trump and arizona, 50% to 45%, and also in north carolina, 49 to 47% but this poll also shows that harris has really opened a wide lead with women you know, she has.

>> and what's interesting about that is that during the 2016 campaign when hillary clinton was running, there was a lot more talk of breaking the glass ceiling in. she would be the first woman president and all of that history that would have happened if hillary had been elected here or there, they're not really talking about that as much. that's more about trump. it's more about the future and we've had the first female vice president, and so she's she already broke that barrier. and so she is hoping that her increase totals among women, among young voters, among black voters, that that will be enough to put her over the top. she is not talking too much about how she would be the first woman. and i think she thinks that j.d. vance and his comment on childless cat, ladies, that that will be enough for many democratic women to say, hey, i want to vote for harris and stuff trump. >> before we go, i want to ask you one last thing about trump.

he was on the campaign trail and wilkes-barre, pennsylvania yesterday. here he is all over the place again, you're talking economy immigration and of course, lobbying those personal insults against harris. listen she say she's going to lower the cost of food and housing starting on day one but day one for kamala was three-and-a-half years ago so why didn't she do it then you don't mind if i go off teleprompter for a second day joe biden they should know her biggest advantages that she is a beautiful woman. >> i'd gone i never thought that i'm better looking than she is. >> daniel that near times sienna poll that we were just referring to also show that a lot of voters still trust trump. more than harris when it comes to the economy. and i know his advisors, obviously are going mad listening to him

not staying on message, but trump really can't help them himself, although he's helping harris the meantime yeah. >> this is he loves to play off the energy of the crowd that will always stay the same. and he thinks that he has to be true to himself. and if that means lobbying personal attacks, that don't actually win him, a lot of votes then he's going to continue to do that and he has really had found a lot of difficulty in terms of finding a message that works against harris. he's still talks about joe biden a lot and he has tried to use nicknames. you said line camila, crazy, camila laughing, camila. but a lot of americans are kind of numb to that it was more for avant-garde in 2016 call hillary clinton crooked hillary. but now it just seems like, hey, this is trump's old stick. >> yeah, those nicknames aren't sticking so well, are they daniel lippman? good to see you this morning. thank you. >> thanks so much.

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putin's plan, but still into russia, we cross with ukrainian forces moving forward through the border posts. >> they destroyed in their surprise assault ten days ago we get closer towards soja. we could see more smoke horizon, but still it's ali khan on this ronan pause a moment in his open fields and remember, this is the cold war superpower on guarded open and never expecting when russian president vladimir putin launched his war of choice two years ago, to be invaded back a russian dead soldiers still in the road ukraine one claimed here a day ago. or not even the statue of lenin is unscathed hear this ukrainian assault so persistence and russia, despite its sense of history, it's sort of passed as being some impregnable, completely unable to push the ukrainians out

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democratic national convention tomorrow at seven on cnn and streaming on max the southern border is a major focus of the trump campaign, while all eyes are on kamala harris this week at the dnc, donald trump is expected to ramp up his attacks on harris and the biden administration's handling of it immigration, saying they are not doing enough to curb migrant crossings, but as cnn's rosa flores shows, us officials, there are actually seeing a significant drop in migrant crossings over the past two months i've spent so much time and el paso during prior migrant surges that just by driving to certain spots i can tell that migrant apprehensions are low right now, just take a look beyond the border fence in this hotspot south of the border wall, you see rows of razor wire and piles of fencing. a huge difference from when i was here more than a year ago. when hundreds of migrants in a makeshift camp are waiting to turn themselves

into border patrol during another migrant surges, migrant families with children slept at the airport and large groups of migrants rushed the international bridge towards el paso. some of them in tears about the cumbersome u.s. asylum process this is sibling go vibrio or second rule and one of the biggest indicators that migrant apprehensions are low are the streets around this church. >> take a look you don't see large migrant camps on sidewalks and on the streets. >> but during migrant surges hundreds of migrant families called the street home other the high and garcia, the priest, has seen the cycles of migration before. there's become a big political issue. >> garcia says, migrants stopped showing up in large numbers in june when president joe biden's executive order bar to asylum for those who cross illegally and ahead of the election, he doesn't expect the democrats to let up up

politically. >> it's not a good thing to do the humanitarian thing to do but it's not politically the drop in migrant apprehensions is not just happening in el paso. >> it's happening all along the u.s southern border. i wanted to show you this spot because this is one of the illegal crossing hotspots. we're actually in new mexico and sometimes when you look beyond the border wall, you can see smugglers on the other side. i talked to a source familiar with the government and data who says that last month, about 57,000 migrants were apprehended at the u.s. southern border. compare that to 250,000 in december of 2023. does that mean that the migrant flow has stopped? absolutely not velazquez garcia from the international rescue committee says, another reason for the drop in migrant crossings is that more than 1 million migrants are stuck in mexico as they wait to enter the u.s in what he calls a carousel, or

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these homes, agreeing on as i understand it, a max commission for fees for that buyers agent and to say that it's negotiable. so what should buyers be looking for in these new legally binding contracts? >> so good morning, victor. >> some states have already required the written agreement for buyers prior to looking at a home. >> now this will just be requirement of all members of the national association of realtors in that contract, it will spell out how the buyer is going to have the commission hey, to the real estate professional, they are engaging with. it will have a term of some of these contracts might be for that home for one day or it could be longer, but it will spell everything out. so all of the agreed upon discussions, what each transaction is going to happen, what each party owes to the there will be spelled right out in that written buyer agreement. >> all right. let's talk about settlers now. before now, home

seller paid the listing agent and the buyer's agent fees. but now the home seller can choose not to pay buyer agent fees, pay a portion pay a flat fee towards buyer's agents what do these new changes as part of this? settlement mean for the seller the seller has always been able to negotiate that commission and to make a determination with how that commission may or may not be split. >> that's always been there, but they're just will be an added element of transparency. they're no longer will be commission the splits shown on multiple listing service that is the marketplace for homes. so if i want to show a home that you have listed, i will call you and ask you what your seller is willing to pay a buyer's agent if anything. and then i'll let my buyer know that and will move forward with what our buyer agreement is. >> okay. so now there was this process of steering as it's been called a buyer's agents

steering them toward homes with higher commissions for the buyer agent before now, sellers listed the commission's to buyers agents on mls. that's a service that i guess fulfills these websites you go and search homes on. and now seller's agents cannot advertise commissions on mls. there was a usc study that found that in a typical market, they estimate that the lowest commission properties faced as 75% greater risk of not selling at all in part because of steering they can't be advertised, but a buyer's agent can just call a selling agent and asked that question, right? it just adds another step that it won't be on the website yes, it just adds another step, but i will tell you that in 35 years of selling real estate, i have never never just made a decision on what home to show a buyer based on what commission i was receiving i've had a discussion with my buyer with how i expect to be paid and

what i need to earn so that a.i. >> can make a living in of my profession, but i have never done that when i have a client and that buyer becomes a client i owe them a fiduciary responsibility to find the best home for them at the best price in terms that they can afford not what i will learn well, i'm sure your clients appreciate that. you have never steered them in a direction and because of commissions, but studies show and research in the industry shows that it has happened that these homes with again, the usc study, homes with lower buying agent commissions take longer to sell and are less likely to sell at all. let me ask you another general question here. this is good news for the buyer. it's good news for the seller, as you say that there is more transparency is it bad news for real estate agents and realtors? >> not really in my opinion. >> we are just going to continue to do what we have

done vast. we are going to continue to represent the client that we have. and we're going to continue to be a resource for home buyers and sellers. this is the largest purchase that americans make in their lifetime. we need to be there to help them through this entire process jennifer stevenson. >> thank you thank you. are hopefully you're not having breakfast yet. you're still embed. maybe you need to close your eyes because it's open season in florida, the everglades python hunting challenge ends today i'll look at how participants are trying to catch as many of these reptiles as possible. >> that's after the break cnn is live from chicago as democrats unite to offer their support to a new nominee and her running mate fellow cnn for complete coverage, the democratic national convention tomorrow at seven on cnn and streaming on max what's considered normal for your cat is interesting it's curious

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kind of scavenger hunt is underway. >> it is the annual florida python challenge. >> yeah, just a few hours left around 800 hunters are out in the florida everglades right now they're hoping to catch these giant creatures and collect the big cash prize. cnn's carlos suarez takes us on the hunt in the humid sweltering summer, deep in the florida everglades, the hunt is on for the burmese python, right? >> so we're looking at about 30 pounds in about nine feet it sounds about right. one of the larger ones dance, i say this is on average of what you're going to find out there experts. >> we spoke to have seen snakes as long as 19 feet, weighing 125 pounds oh god, the invasive species of snakes have few natural predators and are known to consume praying as large as alligators for ten days this month, hunter's on trucks

equipped with floodlights, drive into the night their eyes trained on the flooded grassland for the slightest sign of a snake. >> lot of the times, you'll just get a little piece of a tail sticking out from behind a tree or something? when you stop these things are very, very camouflaged despite that, cody quentin captured a ten foot python last year. >> it's all part of florida's annual python challenge, were amateurs and professionals see the thrill of a capture and cash prizes. the hunter who catches the most burmese pythons can take home $10,000. >> not to be, i still get the rush though. every time you see it, you're like a placed on noise. i finally get another one out of here. because, you know, let's the mission essentially used to get a motier quentin is a professional python hunter. >> we joined them at night, deep in the florida everglades. but there were no snakes in sight. hunter's can go days without spotting a burmese python at 3:00, cross paths

with 100 pythons, you might just see in one to five of them got to watch where he step frank ferraro is one of the roughly 800 hunter's this season hoping for that one big catch, what your dream catch a year ago somebody got to 19 foot python that's the largest on record so far, and i'm thinking if there's 19 foot there's a 20-foot. so matt as well, think big the. snake's first showed up in florida in 1979, brought here as pets and likely released into the wild by owners when the snakes grew to bet to keep, they will hear, they will try to inflate themselves to be as big as they possibly tan according to the florida fish and wildlife conservation commission, since 2000, more but then 21,000 burmese pythons have been captured and killed. the hardest thing is finding the snake. and once you found them, catching them is relatively easy.

>> you couldn't pay me enough to even go near one of these, go into the florida everglades at night. i mean, who knows what you're going to find in there. >> okay. >> i'm not i'm not against it. >> against what goes on oh, i'm not obviously an expert, but i go along. >> i think could and i said adventure saying and sure, grave, you me. >> sometimes go all right, let's see it cnn's carlos suarez reporting. >> we'll find out later. just how many pythons were captured, organized as expected could be somewhere in the neighborhood of 200. >> okay. florida fish and wildlife, if you heard that, you can invite surfer right along. i'm down happy to see that. >> next year the next hour of cnn this morning starts. >> now top of a brand new hour this morning and good morning to you minneapolis nice now, there as a son will be coming up s